Beatrice Schenk de Regniers Quotes
I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.
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Life is our dictionary.
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I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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This one is a direct challenge to the city's perception of itself. It's made people angry. And it's created a movement we haven't seen around here in a long time.
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I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel.
